#lightnin’ hopkins

[darlingbandit]

#Sam ‘Lightnin’ Hopkins #Lightnin’ Hopkins #The Broadside #blues #music #q

[krispyweiss]

Album Review: Various Artists - Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971

Next time someone says, “Thank a taper,” mention Mack McCormick by name.

An untrained, Texas-based blues aficionado and curator, McCormick recorded nearly 600 reels of tape over the decades, three-and-one-half hours of which make up Smithsonian Folkways’ Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971, which represents the first compilation from this storied archive.

Think of it as an historical text. And this black-history book would doubtless be banned in modern Florida as the performers sing of sex, war, segregation, drugs, murder, prison and other popular subjects of the folk and blues traditions.

Across 66 tracks, listeners are treated to names both familiar - Lightnin’ Hopkins (“Mojo Hand,” “Blues Jumped a Rabbit”) and Mance Lipscomb (“God Moves on the Water”) - and previously unknown, as when George “Bongo Joe” Coleman stands on a street corner banging his drum and barking about the end on “This Old World’s in a Sad Condition” and a new beginning on “George Coleman for President.”

“Matchbox Blues.” “Rollin’ and Tumblin’.” “Deep Elum Blues.” “Little Red Rooster.” “St. James Infirmary.” “Corinne, Corrina.” These are among the titles that draw a straight line from Robert Johnson to Son House to Buddy Guy to Eric Clapton to the Grateful Dead and on to Dom Flemons. Any fan of any of these genres, titles and/or artists will want to listen to these musicians Playing for the Man at the Door and hope fervently this is not the last of the Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick to emerge.

Grade card: Various Artists - Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971 - A

9/27/23

#playing for the man at the door #2023 albums #lightnin’ hopkins #mance lipscomb #robert johnson #son house #buddy guy #eric clapton #grateful dead #dom flemons

[cosmicanger]

Lightnin’ Hopkins

#Lightnin’ Hopkins #style #b #a #black musix #the blues

[sweetietray]

#lightnin’ Hopkins #youtube #the blues

[holyphantomtimetravel]

Lightnin' Hopkins

#blues music #lightnin' hopkins

[undergroundrockpress]

Lightnin' Hopkins

#Lightnin' Hopkins #blues

[musickickztoo]

Lightnin' Hopkins *March 15, 1912

#lightnin' hopkins #march 15

[ifelllikeastar]

Works of R. Crumb

Frank Zappa, 1991 - Bo Diddley, 2000 - Woody Guthrie, Lightnin' Hopkins, 1974

#r crumb #love #frank zappa #lightnin hopkins #bo diddley #woodie guthrie #cartoon #artist

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (Les Blank, 1969)

#The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins #Les Blank #quote #music #1969 #Lightnin' Hopkins #documentary #sadness #blues #biopic #music documentary

[ozkar-krapo]

LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS

"Really the Blues"

(LP. America rcds. ? / rec. 1951-54) [US]

#lightnin hopkins #1951 #usa #blues #records #Youtube

[lisamarie-vee]

#grateful dead #jerry garcia #herb greene #lightnin' hopkins #b&w #1960s #rock and roll hall of fame

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Lightnin’ Hopkins - “Blues Jumped a Rabbit”

Not just an unheard recording, but a never-before-released song from Lightnin’ Hopkins is preview No. 2 from Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971.

“Blues Jumped a Rabbit” finds Hopkins grafting various Blind Lemon Jefferson lyrics into an (almost) original tune set to his boom-chuck acoustic guitar.

Didn’t have no eduction/hadn’t spent a day in school/but I had sense enough to know when I got the blues/go away blues/don’t worry me no more, he sings.

“Rabbit” follows Leroy “Country” Johnson and Edwin “Buster” Pickens’ “Train Roll Up” ahead of Playing for the Man’s Aug. 4 arrival. And it’s a sparkling gem as Hopkins sings smoothly and plays perfectly roughly.

Grade card: Lightnin’ Hopkins - “Blues Jumped a Rabbit” - A

4/12/23

#Youtube #lightnin’ hopkins #blues jumped a rabbit #blind lemon jefferson #mack mccormick #playing for the man at the door

[to-pass-the-time-away]

I listen to music that's so old it takes Spotify half way through the song to load the lyrics.

#music #blues #rock n roll #vinyl #records #spotify #howlin' wolf #muddy waters #robert johnson #lightnin hopkins #lead belly #sonny boy williamson #just about any blues artist it does it to

[blackros78]

Lightnin' Hopkins

#lightnin' hopkins #blues

[chrisgoesrock]

Lightnin' Hopkins - Nothin' But The Blues! 1961

#Lightnin' Hopkins #Nothin' But The Bles #Album #1961

[tejedac]

Favorite Blues Songs · Playlist

Robert Johnson · Elmore James · Howlin' Wolf · Muddy Waters · B. B. King · John Lee Hooker · Sonny Boy Williamson · Mississippi Fred McDowell · Lightnin' Hopkins · Willie Dixon · Memphis Slim · J. B. Lenoir · Blind Willie McTell · Skip James · Frank Stokes · Charley Patton, etc.

#Blues #muddy waters #howlin' wolf #robert johnson #elmore james #sonny boy williamson #bb king #mississippi fred mcdowell #lightnin' hopkins #little walter #john lee hooker #skip james #memphis slim #frank stokes #jb lenoir